Re: [gtk-i18n-list] On CJK font selection (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Request for review and advice on wqy-bitmap-fonts fontconfig settings])

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 12:23 +0900, mpsuzuki hiroshima-u ac jp wrote:
> 
> 
> http://www.pango.org/ScriptGallery?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Vertical.png
> http://www.pango.org/ScriptGallery?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=VerticalSimple.png
> 
> In the vertical texts, the 3rd character (punctuation
> after "好") seems (for me) to be located at too-low
> position, as if they were vertically-centerlined glyph
> based on horizontal-writing mode. Qianqian, for Chinese
> users' eyes, they seem to be correctly positioned?

Most probably the font doesn't have the vertical variants.  If it has,
Pango will use it, as you can see in the brackets in the last line where
the brackets unlike other characters are actually rotated:

http://www.pango.org/ScriptGallery?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Vertical.png

> Regards,
> mpsuzuki

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